At its meeting in May
1927 the eighth plenum of the ECCI 'categorically forbade comrades
Trotsky and Vuyovich to continue their fractional struggle'. . . .

The facts show that in
the intervening time this warning was not taken to heart.

The opposition answered
this categorical prohibition with an embittered attack on the CPSU
and the Comintern, with further attempts to destroy the unity of the
Leninist ranks both in the Soviet Union and throughout the world.

Called before the August
plenum of the CC and the CCC of the CPSU, the opposition again
promised, as it did in its statement of 16 October 1926, to cease its
illegal fractional work against the party. This promise was given in
the face of a direct threat to expel its leaders Trotsky and Zinoviev
from the CC of the CPSU.

Nevertheless, a few days
later, the undertaking given on 8 August met the same fate as that of
16 October. The opposition, in the most glaring fashion, broke the
promise given to the party and the entire International, and thus
finally made it impossible for comrades Trotsky and Vuyovich to
remain on the ECCI.

Despite the undertaking
given at the August plenum of the CC and the CCC, the opposition
continued openly to form its own organization centres; this, in the
objective nature of the case, is nothing but an attempt to create the
kernel of a Trotskyist party alongside the Leninist CPSU.

At the same time it
continued to maintain and extend its connexions with various foreign
groups of renegades, such as the Maslow-Ruth Fischer group in
Germany, Souvarine in France. . . .

Besides the threat to
create a second party outside and against the CPSU, it threatens to
form a new 'fourth International' outside and against the Comintern.

At a time of the utmost
gravity in the international position of the Soviet Union, when the
danger of imperialist intervention looms over the first proletarian
State in the world, the opposition openly forms a bloc with groups
representing the foulest scum of the international labour movement. .
. .

The opposition, which
uses the ultra-left and right apostates from communism abroad (Maslow
and Souvarine) as its mouthpiece, continues within the Soviet Union,
with increasing stubbornness and shamelessness, to spread deliberate
lies about the leadership of the Comintern and the CPSU...

The discovery a few days
ago of a secret opposition printing-press shows particularly clearly
how far the opposition has departed from the party and the Comintern.
It transpired at the same time that in organizing this press the
opposition did not shrink from using the services of non-party
bourgeois intellectuals having connexions with politically suspect
and openly anti-Soviet elements.

Whether it wants to or
not, the opposition is thus becoming the centre, organizational as
well as ideological, around which are crystallizing those strata
hostile to us who cannot reconcile themselves to the proletarian
dictatorship and work actively for its overthrow.

Called to task at the
meeting of the ECCI presidium on 27 September, comrades Trotsky and
Vuyovich made statements which in themselves indicate a further long
step away from the Comintern and from Leninism towards Maslow and
Souvarine.

Replying to the charge of
malicious violation of party discipline, comrade Trotsky openly
declared that the discipline of the bolshevik party was not binding
for him. In the speech which he read he said: 'Bureaucratic
discipline on the basis of a false policy is not an instrument to
close the ranks, but an instrument to disrupt and undermine the
party.'

It is quite obvious that
comrade Trotsky refused to submit to the proletarian discipline which
he condemned in these words. He therefore considered it quite
unnecessary to defend in any way comrades Serebriakov,
Preobrazhensky, and Sharov, who on their own admission organized the
anti-party press. Comrade Trotsky stated openly before the ECCI
presidium that comrades Preobrazhensky, Serebriakov, and Sharov, as
regards their policy, towered high over those who sought to cover
their crimes by party discipline. People who with the help of
bourgeois intellectuals organize a secret press against the party are
said to tower politically over those who on behalf of the party keep
guard over its unity, defend the basic principles of its discipline,
without which the party and the Comintern could not exist at all as
fighting organizations. . . .

The world organization of
the revolutionary proletariat, the Comintern, and its leading
section, the CPSU, are described, in sweet harmony with the yellow
bourgeois press, as a crowd of people without minds or wills of their
own, following behind their leaders, comrades Stalin and Bukharin.
'No single organization', says Trotsky, 'now discusses or makes
decisions; they only carry them out. Even the ECCI presidium is no
exception.'

The ECCI presidium
considers it impossible for comrades Trotsky and Vuyovich to remain
any longer on the ECCI, which they have accused of usurpation and
against which they are conducting a bitter struggle, with the help of
renegades abroad and secret printing-presses in the Soviet Union,
organizing illegal centres, and uttering malicious slanders.

In order to maintain the
unity of the Leninist ranks, to combat the undermining work of the
opposition splitters, and in the belief that all the possible
varieties of warning have already been exhausted, while to refrain
any longer from organizational measures is beginning to be dangerous
and intolerable, the presidium of the ECCI, at its joint meeting with
the International Control Commission on 27 September 1927,
unanimously resolves, in accordance with the resolution of the eighth
plenum of the ECCI, to expel comrades Trotsky and Vuyovich from the
ECCI.